High-Level Impact Reporting*

BCF aims to make nonprofit information widely available to our clients. What we don’t always know is how you use funds made available through us to help achieve success. We strongly believe that the stories behind your good work are as important to the social sector’s advancement as the numbers on your charities registration return. As a start, when you are completing your grant application, please consider the intended impact of your work in very simple terms.

One way of documenting impact is by crafting a sentence from the following guidelines.

Funding support fromXXX [Name of Funder or Fund]will help my organisation…

Action

Number

Units

to/of

Recipients

in

Place

Donate

X

Dollars

-

NGOs

Bermuda

Solicit

X

Lives

-

Donations

Parish

Sell

X

Kids

-

Goods

World

Deliver

X

Diseases

-

Services

Street

Save

X

Meals

-

Students

Neighbourhood

Prevent

X

Acres

-

Youth

District

Feed

X

Others

-

Patients

Block

Teach

X

Others

-

Unemployed

Department

Increase

X

Others

-

Disadvantaged

School

Decrease

X

Others

-

Veterans

Classroom

Others

X

Others

-

Funders

Others

Others

X

Others

-

Trees

Others

Others

X

Others

-

Food

Others

Others

X

Others

-

Others

Others

*Model adapted from GuideStar

For example, last yearThe Smith Family Fundat BCFhelped our organisation preserve 5 acres of greenspace in Paget as a community garden – for the use of future generations of Bermuda residents.

This method inno waycomprises a true programme evaluation or a true assessment of impact, but we hope that it serves as a useful starting point for you!